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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katy BirchallJenny Valentine|title=The It Girl|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Anna is an awkward 14-year-old who is trying to fit Us in with people at her new school – the Before and convince them that she wasn’t actually trying to set her popular classmate’s hair on fire, it just happened. Her dad is a well-known journalist who’s just written a book, and they get on well - until he falls for a famous actress. With the paparazzi buzzing over the news of the engagement, Anna becomes a new target for them – but can this shy, nerdy girl cope with the sudden attention?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140527817X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Taran Matharu|title=The NoviceAfter

|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other'The Novice''s contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, Taran Matharu’s Wattpad sensation and they are inseparable. Something has already received a staggering five million reads. This book doesn’t just survive the hype; it deserves ithappened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444923978</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathy Reichs and Brendan ReichsMax Boucherat|title= Exposure (Virals 4)The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= In We meet Lori on the fourth book of this electrifying scifirst evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-fi crime thriller series breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the resourceful teen Virals pit their wits against world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a cunning villain when two tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of their classmates go missingtampering. An exciting adventure with When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a shocking twist.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099567245</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lydia SysonRachel Greenlaw|title=Liberty's FireCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Paris ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the uneasy rocks and violent months between March plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and May 1871 is an inspired setting for this tenseany treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, dramatic novel. they capture the island''Libertys leader and Mira's Fire'' father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is Lydia Sysonsecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's third work territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of fiction her home and certainly ensures that the ones she will not be stereotyped into any single historical periodholds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140367X</amazonuk> 0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessHarry Allen|title=PersistChildren of the Sun

|summary=Harry Friedman Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is only 17a talented singer. But WWII Life is raging all across Europe hard and Harry felt the call food is difficult to serve his country come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the Allied cause. And that's how he became a gunner on the ''Macey May'', an American Flying Fortress stationed in East Anglia, far away from Harry's New York meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858495</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben DavisAlexia Casale|title=The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Return of the Geek|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Joe Cowley has got it bad. Whatever ''it'' is, he's got it bad. The hots for his girlfriend, Natalie? Bad. Living arrangements with his ex-school-bullying-nemesis-turned-step-brother? Very bad. Some greasy swazz trying to take his girlfriend from him, at the same time as sucking up to her father who is also his business mentor? Pretty awful. An attitude that means a devil-may-care voice in his head leads him to support his oddball friends through a dance music competition just to get one over on the swazz? You can guess, what with that being the main thrust of the plot here, that that too is B A D bad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736965</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nicole Burstein|title=Othergirl|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Imagine a world where superheroes are real and very much awesome. Imagine a teenage girl who discovers she has amazing powers, that she can fly and toss fire. And then imagine that Sing if you aren’t this girl, but rather her very normal best friend. The one who patches up her friend's costume and covers for her at school, who worries and frets about her GCSEs while simultaneously planning how to get her friend noticed by the worldwide network of heroes, the Vigils. This isnCan't the story of Erica the superhero, but rather the story of Louise, loyal friend and sidekick.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440619</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Curtis Jobling|title=Haunt: Dead WrongDance|rating=4.5

|summary= Will and Dougie have been friends for agesIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. They each understand how But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the other thinks (wellpity stares, most of the time) and they stick together through thick and thin. Literally, in fact: Willdesperate to get back to a life that's dead but somehow heas normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's not only unable a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to move on try to whatever comes nextsort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. he actually So even though she can't stray more than a few feet away from his best friend. The possibilities for embarrassment are endless.dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471115798</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate HendrickSimon Fox|title=The Accident|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Accident alternates between three characters telling their story before, just after and much later than the day of the accident which connects them. Before the car crash, Eliat is a teenage mum knowing she needs to be an adult whilst never feeling more like a kid. Just after the car crash, Will is struggling to hold his dysfunctional family together when his oldest sister moves back home. Later, Sarah is struggling to move on with her life with the injuries and grief the accident has left her with. It’s a story about, whether we realise it or not, how we’re all connected by split-second decisions and we can’t control the impact they have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921922850</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jandy Nelson|title=I'll Give You The SunDeadlock

|summary=Life Late one night Graham Blake is changing very fast for Ben Carrington. He is at the opening of a huge skyscraper hotel his late father founded in Abu Dhabi when disaster strikes – the chap is hardly cold in back from his grave when Ben's mum and shift on the lad have to prove how adept they are at her old jobforce, of mountain rescue. She feels like setting up a new rescue agency with her nous and the family fortunes, but someone who can just amble into the opening/memorial ceremony is Jason Trubythen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a monumentally rich Internet magnate, who actually has a modern-day ''Thunderbirds'' entity alreadysecret place, and join him on the top secret Gemini Forcerun. Truby starts to They get close together, but barely begin to smell the family whiff of twoSouthern trains when the father is arrested, but leaving Archie on the school-aged Ben isn't going late express to be allowed Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to learn just what dramatic escapades keep away from his colleagues, and the agency has to cover – is he?bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444014064</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katy CannonLex Croucher|title=Secrets, Schemes Gwen and Sewing MachinesArt Are Not in Love

|summary=Grace is looking forward Who knew that what I really needed to being the star read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in the upcoming school production of Much Ado About Nothinga most delightful way. In this story, but after missing the auditionGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, she's relegated much to understudy and making costumes in sewing club. Being a costume mistress definitely wasn't the plantheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, but it may leave her is in a position to step into love with Bridget (the lead role if needed - and therekingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a compensation in boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the form subterfuge of new boy Connorfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, who's stage managing and after initially appearing or are they destined to dislike Grace starts to warm to her. Will Grace get the part and the boylive a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847155146</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benjamin J MyersNick Brooks|title=The Grindle Witch|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Deep in the woods something evil is stirring...'' You can say that again. Jack Jolly's father is a pathologist and neither he nor the armed police with him have ever seen anything like Tom Moore's body. Whoever or whatever killed the old man has carried out the most savage attack anyone has ever seen. And Jack, who has just moved to the remote village of Grindle from the city, had thought it a boring and dull place with unfriendly people, where nothing ever happens. How wrong could he have been?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011715</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Holly Smale|title=Geek Girl: All That GlittersPromise Boys

|summary=If you're a bright, enthusiastic teen but not top When the principal (headmaster) of the popularity polls at Urban Promise Prep school then this series of books by Holly Smale is absolutely made for youmurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Harriet Manners is Each, seemingly, according to your point has a grudge of viewsome description against Principal Moore, either beautiful enough to travel and each could have been there at the world modelling fabulous clothestime of his murder. But who killed him, or a girl with a very ordinary face who got veryand why, very lucky. She's clumsy and accident-proneif any of the boys are innocent, her dress sense leaves a lot to will they be desired, and she's far more inclined able to research the fine art of making friends in a book (or ten) than go out there and have a go.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007574584</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michelle Falkoff1919635017|title=Playlist For The Dead|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=This book markets itself as a mystery with a bit of a love story thrown in but it is more than that. It is about loss, anger, confusion, the pain caused by bullying and the desire A Thief to fit into Catch a social group by connecting with other people. It addresses how people can change after a tragedy, the dangers of isolating oneself and how teens focus on pursuits such as gaming, science fiction, graphic novels, art, music and popular culture to express themselves and try to make sense of their world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008110662</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=Lance Rubin|title=Denton Little's DeathdateKitt Townsend

|summary=Solomon Klyne isn''Tomorrow t a bad lad, so why is the day Ihe running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'm going ll have to die. I don't mean wait to get all dramatic about it. I've known that tomorrow is an answer to the day second question because I will die since I was born.. Just like almost everyone else in the world knows their deathdateavoid spoilers. But do I need to get movie-preview-voice-over-guy intense about it? Probably not.'' Oh! I think I would want to get intense about impending death. Don't you think you would, too? But imagine what it's like to live in a world where everyone knows ll answer the day they will die. Rituals and conventions spring upfirst one: for his grandmother. You get to go to your own funeral. You could even get to make the most of your life if you know when it ends. You won't pass up so many opportunities, perhaps?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124231</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tommy WallachPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=We All Looked UpDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=PeterAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, Elizaso his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, Andy and Anita are two other old muckers – in fact they all about go back to graduate high primary schooldays together. They As they're all have plans fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and expectations, even slacker Andy. But those expectations are about out often turns to be thrown into disarraysex. An asteroid Which is approaching Earth and thereconfusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a 66% chance of a collision and an extinction level event. There are just casual relationship, a few weeks before a possiblesecret one, no a likelyfor several months now, end of and so has effectively progressed up the world. What will happen? How will they react? What will they ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can'dot be sure. And that's mostly because of who he'?s been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147112455X</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner1800901232|title=This Shattered WorldStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=StoneTwelve-faced Captain Jubilee Chase is year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the best soldier on Avonrural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a planet job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the midst of mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a rebellionshop, where they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the terraforming won’t take, ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the mysterious Fury infects soldiers legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and turns distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them into mindless killers. Only Lee is immune, ? It's quite possible that Hanh and she doesn’t understand whyher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423171039</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth WeinPatrice Lawrence|title=Black Dove, White Raven|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The essential role of aviators in the success or failure of modern war is a given, and fiction is full of the derring-do and dog-fight exploits of moustachioed heroes waving their trade-mark silk scarves as they land their frail and battered craft at a friendly airstrip. But what if the enemy planes outnumber those of your country by hundreds, if not thousands, and you, the pilot, are barely out of your childhood?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405271361</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Donald Hounam|title=GiftedNeedle|rating=3.5

|summary=Fifteen-year-old Frank Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a forensic sorcererpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, employed to solve murders and other grisly crimes has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a world where adults get comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the blur plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and lose their eyesight by their mid-twentiesis making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only the young have enough sorcerous power to summon demons remark how sharp and angelspointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552571873</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diana SweeneyAnn Sei Lin|title=The MinnowRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Diana Sweeney's ''The Minnow'' is an Australian book aimed at Young Adults that features deathKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, grief, abuse, fear a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and lonelinessmake merry between their conquests. Teenage pregnancy lies at its heart while bereavementHowever, and trying when a man named Himura arrives to come to terms tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with loss, bubbles just under the surface, constantly. But don't be misled. This novel isn't some earnest pedagogical attempt power to convey teenage angst and elicit grave pity or understanding from form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the readerEmpire. What rescues it from mawkishness is the beautiful voice of the narrator, Tom (or Holly, if you prefer He asks her real name). Tom doesn't fall prey to self-pity. She simply describes her world as she sees itcome with him, matter-to leave the life of-fact. And the fact dreary servitude that her view is rather unusual (all she talks to fishhas known. Well, dead people and her unborn child - and they talk back) doesnsoon Kurara won't really have any say in the matter. Nothing can detract from , because the sheer lyricism of her voice. As Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a readershikigami, you just have and she is forced to suspend disbelief and enjoy flee out into the rideworld. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>192218201X</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren St JohnMarcus Sedgwick|title=The GloryWrath

|summary=Alex is what you might call Meet Fitz, a disruptive teenageryoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. She's always getting into trouble but the latest trouble Lockdown is the worst yet only just over, and her mum he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and step-dad have had enough. Even her fatherwith whom he wants, far away but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in Australia with it when he talks to his new familybest friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, thinks something must be donebut Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. So Alex is sent all Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the way out to end of the States to world is already a teenage boot camp. But even naughty teenagers have their plus points, and Alexdone deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's is her love dreaming of horses? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. She'll do anything to save the mustang scout from the slaughterhouse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444012754</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teresa TotenTori Bovalino|title=The Unlikely Hero of Room 13BDevil Makes Three

|summary=Fifteen year old Adam Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has a listto deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. He needs to get betterThe boarding school's headmaster, grow taller and marry the love a man Tess hates. As a petty act of his liferevenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Robyn. But while Adam develops a metaphorical tunnel vision so that he can focus only Tess sticks post-it notes on winning Robyn’s loveeach of the books, everything he is ignoring in scribbled with the periphery is unravellingugliest insults she can think of. How can Adam help his own overwhelming OCD when he’s so focussed on fixing everyone around They're never meant to reach him? When , of course. Her plan is it ok to hang up your own superhero cloak get her anger out like this, and admit that you might need saving?then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406362999</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim BowlerPhilip Reeve|title=Game Changer|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Mikey is afraid Utterly Dark and the Face of open spaces. He would much rather hide in his room - in his wardrobe, actually - than face the world outside. But his family, in particular his sister Meggie, are very supportive. And with Meggie's help, Mikey is gradually beginning to face that world outside. But then something goes horribly, horribly wrong. Mikey sees something he shouldn't have seen. And the gang knows what he saw. The gang knows where he lives. And the gang wants to talk to him...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192794159</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Pinborough|title=The Death HouseDeep

|summary=''Your city is lostIn a word, rich. Your city There is not yourscertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. Your city is mine.'' That's what Bast says. The Ancient Egyptian goddessThere are troll people on it, and sea-witches, freed and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from thousands of years imprisonmenteven further west, has unleashed her magicwhere no ship dare sail. Time has stopped. All the humans The current Darks are frozen in suspended animation. All the humans exceptWatcher, that isAndrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother and sister Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and JoAndrewe's foundling daughter, who are protected by washed up out of the scarab bracelets they wearsea one day eleven years ago. And nowBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, Bast has even succeeded in freezing some of the Spits (good statues) both his sullen brother and has sent his curious ward are thrust into the bad statues (Taints) to find the two children who are threatening her plansworld of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444917358</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melinda SalisburyKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Sin Eater's Daughter |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In a land of fantasy, Twylla lives in the court, engaged to the prince. But this is no fairytale – he is one of Julia and the only people she can touch, made immune to the poison carried in her veins. The embodiment of a goddess, Twylla is the executioner, forced to kill those who commit treason. Nearly everyone around is terrified of her. Until new guard Lief arrives, who could see her as a friend, or even romantically. The question of whether the two could have a future together is an intriguing one, but before long, it’s the least of Twylla’s worries as she’s thrown into danger by the queen’s obsession with destroying her enemies. Can she survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407147633</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Teri Terry|title=Mind GamesShark

|summary=Willem doesn't usually find homework challenging. He's good at schoolwork. But Mrs Hubert Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has given him an assignment he's going been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to find difficultbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. He must make two friends Here be Vikings, that kind of his own ageScottish island. That's tricky when you're on Dad is going to be automating the autistic spectrum and you don't communicate well. It's even more difficult when almost all your classmates join lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in with Finn when he bullies you and makes you jump from increasingly high placesalgae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. Sasha is torn. She loves Finn to pieces but And Julia, well, she can't bear bullying will be homesick and alone – until she hates herself for not standing up for Willem. And Finn has a secret of his own that's driving his rotten behavioursuddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444916769</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Megan MirandaJonathan Stroud|title=SoulprintThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Alina Chase lives in a future America obsessed by soulprinting. Scientific advances have enabled Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the tracking draconian conformity of the soul by markers carried in spinal fluidSurviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Reincarnation is now an established fact But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and the government maintains a database of all darker past lives. People without heirs can even make wills leaving their worldly goods With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the person in whom their soul is reincarnatedmythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. But Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the discovery has led to problems cannibalistic Tainted and all the problems have led horrors of post-apocalyptic society to Alina's ''containment''.reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408855402</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jasmine WargaMercedes Helnwein|title=My Heart and Other Black HolesSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=Aysel lives in the middle of nowhereGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. She’s smart but not popular, so high school’s not much fun, and her part-time job, cold calling the town’s residents on behalf As a secret illegitimate daughter of various customersa man with a "real" family, she is far from satisfying. It’s understandable that she’s used to not being a very happy girlpriority in people's lives. She’s not the preppy cheerleader or the honour roll student who sidelines as But when she defends a random boy in her class presidentwith her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. She’s nobodyNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, really. But she’s nobody with a dark secret. She wants to take for her own life, and she’s making plans to make this happennow has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444791532</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardT L Huchu|title=Red QueenThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Mare Ropa Moyo is a Red - a race kept in lives of poverty ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and servitude by the Silvers, a race with wealth and mutant powers that allow them to live lives bit of luxury. Learning Scottish pragmatism) to survive amongst the slum like conditions that the Reds inhabit, Mare is swiftly thrown into take messages from the world dead of the Silvers - one that proves to be more dangerous than Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she had ever imagineddropped out of school, with treachery, plots and deadly games lurking round every corner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Darkest Part of the Forest|author=Holly Black|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The people of Fairfold know she's been using it to support not to meddle with the faerie folkonly herself, they wear their socks inside out, fill their pockets with oatmeal but her younger sister and they stay out of the forest on the full moon. Tourists don’t know these thingsher aging grandmother. People travel far and wide to see the faerie town and the sleeping boy in the glass coffin but one or two always go missing, never to be seen again. TouristsHowever, there's an evil stalking the locals sayruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the folk don’t interfere with locals, if they do, you must be acting like a tourist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621736</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Malorie Blackman|title=Love Hurts|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Love Hurts'' is all about heartache but it doesn't leave you bereft. Mixed in are enough moments of heartsease (and heartcity's joy!) to keep you believing in lovechildren. And we all want to believe in loveSoon, don't we? If you are one of Ropa is pulled into the few who don't, you might as well look away now. The rest of us are in search for a treat. This anthology has been gathered together by Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman, one of our favourite YA authors here missing boy at Bookbag, and certainly one who understands exactly how to write about the highs and lows request of love as it is experienced by young peoplehis dead mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552573973</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Amie Kaufman She will end up discovering an occult library and Meagan Spooner|title=These Broken Stars|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Lilac is realise that the untouchable LaRoux princess, daughter world of the richest man in the Universe. Tarver magic is a decorated war hero, allowed to mingle outside his social circles because the upper classes love to celebrate his heroismfar bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. After chance meeting aboard Will she find the Icarus - the most luxurious ship space travel has missing children and bring an end to offer - neither Lilac nor Tarver can deny the attraction blossoming. But Tarver knows he isn't good enough for Lilacthis evil, and Lilac knows that or will it claim her father has very strong ideals about who she spends time with. It's over before it's even begun.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423171020</amazonuk>1529039452